The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-07-21
THE MELROSE RECORD.

much vital Importance, calls out a
good many items this week which we
hope you will give us room in your
valuable paper to air. Holland cap.
tured our school district without
firing a gun, and the facts of the
matter is just this. "We propose
to fight it out on this line if it takes
all summer" The old adage holds
good in this ISSUE" "those who the
gods would destroy they first make
mad".
When our flag at Fort Sumpter was
fred on by the rebels in 1861 every
patriot in our land was thoroughly
aroused to the seriousness of the
issue and the rebellion put down.
When our free school system is at
tackled by its enemies it is time for
every freeman to rally in its defence.
A banker who boasts that he
only expended five cents for his fam.
lily in celebrating the 4th of Tuly
could be expect to make a motion
that his school district should vote
only 5000 for the support of public
school.
The question has been asked as to
how many of the public schools of
Stearns county are conducted in &C.
cordance with law, and the English
language taught therein. Perhaps our
county superintendent of schools
might answer this question.
A scene for an artist. Three
bankers with their families moved at
a public school meeting to vote the
paltry sum of 5000, for teaching the
public schools of this prosperous vii
lage for one year in the nineteenth
century.
Ii the bank of Melrose is short Of
money to pay their proportion OIL
public school tax. subscription
passed around the village would
easily raise the required amount o.
their school tax.
At tie annual school meeting O
district 4S held at the school house
in this village last Saturday at 7, P
NJ, Jos. Kraker was elected distie,
clerk and a term of five month!
school was decided on.
For school trustees elect men t.
Office who are opposed to the system
of free schools for the children Of
our state, that is the way they do al
Melrose.
Are the school children of this dis
triCt to be turned out to run in tn
public streets of the village of Mel
rose for seven months the comm,
season.
Melrose has school director wht
says five months of public school ;
year is too much for the wealthies
common school district in Stearn
county.
Too much education is dangerou
to the youth Of our village. The
would soon know more than thei
parents.
Everybody who desires first elias
school privileges should hasten t
move into Melrose and enjoy tn
five months system.
Five months school and two-hun
dred dollars tax was the order issue,
| by the voters of Melrose school dis
trict Saturday evening last.
Mrs. Wutke died of gangrene las
Thursday from which she has suffere,
since last September.
Mrs. II. Baugh is over from
Paynsville this week visiting relative!
and friends at this place.
Will Lamb and wife of Ledger
wood d. T., is spending short tim
recreating in our village.
Mrs. Shilling of New Munich, dice
ofcancer of the breast in Illinois las
week.
A. A. Whitney took his departure
for St. Cloud last Saturday to attend
to his duties as commissioner.
w. B. Whitney of Lake George
reported last Saturday, that thu
crops in his locality are looking first
class.
Give us a cromo, we desere it fol
the intelligent manner our school i:
being handled.
Mrs. DR.. Griffin of Painsville, is
visiting friends al this place at pres
ent.
Will he resign9 Oh no! No, no,
he.
1o2 degrees in the shade at this
place last Friday.
Mrs. Elmer Grinell boasts of son
who arrived during the week.
Are we to drift back into the dark
ages without asking the reason why,
DR.. Campbell went to Minneapolis
on bu siness during the past week.